Sloshing of water in a tank (2D)

OpenFOAM 4.x

Case directory

$FOAM_TUTORIALS/multiphase/interDyMFoam/ras/sloshingTank2D

Summary

Model geometry Model geometry

We calculate the water flow in a shaking tank using the mesh movement function for 40 seconds. The volume of water is assumed to be about 20% of the tank, and the rest is air. The mesh in z-direction is set to one layer to calculate the problem as a two-dimensional.

The properties of the water and air are specified in the file "constant/transportProperties".

The movement of the mesh is specified in the file "constant/dynamicMeshDict" as follows.

dynamicFvMesh   solidBodyMotionFvMesh;
solidBodyMotionFvMeshCoeffs
{
    solidBodyMotionFunction SDA;
    SDACoeffs
    {
        CofG            (0 0 0);
        lamda           50;
        rollAmax        0.22654;
        rollAmin        0.10472;
        heaveA          3.79;
        swayA           2.34;
        Q               2;
        Tp              13.93;
        Tpn             11.93;
        dTi             0.059;
        dTp             -0.001;
    }
}

The following settings are made in the file "system/controlDict" to output the pressure "p" at the specified point and surface. The output data will be saved in the folder "postProcessing".

functions
{
    probes
    {
        type            probes;
        libs ("libsampling.so");
        writeControl    writeTime;
        probeLocations
        (
            (0 9.95 19.77)
            (0 -9.95 19.77)
        );
        fixedLocations  false;
        fields
        (
            p
        );
    }

    wallPressure
    {
        type            surfaces;
        libs ("libsampling.so");
        writeControl    writeTime;
        surfaceFormat   raw;
        fields
        (
            p
        );
        interpolationScheme cellPoint;

        surfaces
        (
            walls
            {
                type        patch;
                patches     (walls);
                triangulate false;
            }
        );
    }
}

The meshes are as follows, and the number of mesh is 1360.

Mesh Meshes

The calculation result is as follows.

Volume ratio of water (alpha.water)
Volume ratio of water at final time (alpha.water) Volume ratio of water at final time (alpha.water)
Pressure p at the specified coordinates Pressure "p" at the specified coordinates. Solid line: coordinates (0, 9.95, 19.77), dashed line: coordinates (0, -9.95, 19.77).

Commands

cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/multiphase/interDyMFoam/ras/sloshingTank2D sloshingTank2D
cd sloshingTank2D

m4 system/blockMeshDict.m4 > system/blockMeshDict
blockMesh
cp 0/alpha.water.orig 0/alpha.water
setFields
interDyMFoam

# Display in 3D
paraFoam

# Draw the pressures at the specified coordinates as a graph
gnuplot
gnuplot>plot "postProcessing/probes/0/p" using 1:2 title 'point 1' with lines lc rgb "black", "postProcessing/probes/0/p" using 1:3 title 'point 2' with lines dt (5,5) lc rgb "black"

Calculation time

2 minutes 12.92 seconds *Single, Inter(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.40GHz